Part of a series in which foreign filmmakers portray a region or town in France. Manoel de Oliveira looks at Nice.
The love affair involving the beautiful Simone and the younger Françoise, coming from a frustrated suicide attempt.
Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, heir to Sigmund Freud and the English school of psychoanalysis, passionate about both science and the movement of ideas, Jacques Lacan has been called the "French Freud". He was a clinician of madness in general and female madness in particular. He trained a large number of practitioners in France, and his theory had a worldwide impact.
